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Selected Poems 



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Light of Asia. 
Light of the World. 
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With Sa'di in the Garden. 
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Sir Edwin Arnold, poet, Sanskrit scholar, and journalist, was 
born June 10, 1832 : and was educated at King's School, Rochester ; 
at King's College, London ; and at Oxford. In 1852 he won the 
Newdegate prize for English verse. After graduation he was 
appointed second master of King Edward VI, 's College at Birming- 
ham, but was soon after sent to India as principal of the Sanskrit 
college at Poonah, in the presidency of Bombay, with a fellowship 
in the University of Bombay. He held this position from 1857 to 
1861. Then, returning to England, he became one of the editorial 
staff of the Daily Telegraph, with which paper he has ever since 
been connected. 

He is a constant and earnest writer, and one of the best author- 
ities on Eastern questions. He it was who suggested the sending 
of the George Smith expedition to Assyria ; at his suggestion, 
too, the Daily Telegraph co-operated with the New York Herald 
in equipping Stanley for his explorations in Africa. 

Among his works are the following : Griselda, a drama ; numer- 
ous translations from the Greek and Sanskrit ; an annotated copy 
of the Hitopadega, with a vocabulary in English, Sanskrit, and 
Mahratti ; a translation of the Oita-Govinda under the title The 
Indian Song of Songs ; a translation of the Hitopadega under the 
title The Book of Good Counsels ; The Education of India ; and I'he 
History of the Administration of India under the late Marquis of 
Dalhousie. He is probably best known for his poems The Light 
of Asia and The Light of the World. The former tells of the 
life and teaching of Gautama, the founder of Buddhism. The 
author's purpose is to give to Europeans a fair view of Buddh- 
ism as a religious system, and to promote greater sympathy and 
cordiality among the races of the British Empire. His Light of 

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4 SELECTED POEMS. 

the World, tlie divine tragedy of the life and deatli of Christ, 
comes more closely home to the bosoms of men. His volume of 
Indian Poetry contains translations from the Mahdhhdrata and 
Pearh of the Faith. In the latter he attempts to do for Moham- 
medanism what he has already done for Buddhism and Brahman* 
ism. 

Sir Edwin Arnold married an American lady, grand-niece of the 
theologian Dr. W. E. Channing. 

In the autumn of 1891 he made a tour of the principal cities of 
the United States, giving readings from his most noted works, 

" Never since the throne of English Song was filled by Shake- 
speare, to whom {longo intercallo) Lord Tennyson is a w^orthy 
successor, has any single sovereign had such peers as he in Robert 
Browning, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante 
Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Sir Edwin Arnold. They 
cannot be said to resemble each other as the Elizabethan poets 
resembled each other, and it is one of their great distinctions that 
they do not, each dwelling in his own lordly pleasure-house, and 
triumphing in his ow^n realm of thought and feeling — Browning 
in the domain of spiritual tragedy, Arnold in the cloister of 
scholarly meditation, Swinburne in the halls of stormy harmony, 
Rossetti in the border-land between things seen and unseen, 
Morris in a paradise of earthly visions and fantasies, and Sir 
Edwin in the barbaric splendors of the Orient, the shadowy maze 
of its mythology, and the mysterious light of its speculation." 

One who has seen Sir Edwin in the bosom of his family says : 
"If you know 'The Light of Asia,' you have the essence of Sir 
Edwin Arnold's personality : 

' Soft speech, and willing service sweetly rendered.' 

. . . When any one verged on the personal — and we all talked 
freely — it was a lesson to hear Sir Edwin suggest *ome gentle or 
charitable way of putting the same speech — always deliciously 
humorous." This writer adds : " When he was last in India, one 
day a concourse of Indian priests, eighteen hundred in all, as- 
sembled to greet him, carpeting with flowers the road on which 
he walked. The welcome he met with was not short of adora- 
tion, and the Indian peoples told him : 'You have made him live 
again to us I You have said for us what he is to us ! Our sweet 
Lord Buddha ! ' " 



SELECTED POEMS. 



The selections liere given are taken from the following 
volumes : 

I. Light of Asia. 
II. Light op the World, 

III. Pearls of the Faith. 

IV. With Sa'di in the Garden. 
V. Lotus and Jewel. 

VI. Miscellaneous Poems. 



I. 

The Light of Asia. 

(selections.) 

" A generation ago little or nothing was known in Europe of this great 
faith of Asia, which had nevertheless existed during twenty-four centuries, 
and at this day surpasses, in the number of its followers and the area of its 
prevalence, any other form of creed. Four hundred and seventy millions 
of our race live and die in the tenets of Gautama ; and the spiritual domin- 
ions of this ancient teacher extend, at the present time, from Nepaul and 
Ceylon over the whole Eastern Peninsula to China, Japan, Thibet, Central 
Asia, Siberia, and even Swedish Lapland More than a third of man- 
kind, therefore, owe tiieir moral and religious ideas to this illustrious prince, 
whose personality, though imperfectly revealed in the existing sources of 
information, cannot but appear the highest, gentlest, holiest, and most be- 
neficent, with one exception, in the history of Thought." — From Author's 
Preface. 

Book the First. 
The Scrijjture of the Saviour of the Worlds 
Lord Buddha — Prince Sidddrtha styled on earth — 

2. Gautama was his personal name, given to him at the name-giving 
ceremony. When he attained perfect wisdom, he assumed the title Buddha 
— "the Enh'ghtened." All other names are epithets: Sidd a it ha meaus '"one 
who has fulfilled the object (of his coming);" Tathdgato means "who 
comes and goes as his predecessors." 

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In Earth and Heavens and Hells McomparaJble, 
All-honored, Wisest^ Best, most Pitiful; 
The Teacher of Nirvana and the lata. 

Thus came he to be born again for men. 



Below the highest spheres four Regents sit 

Who rule our world, and under them are zones 

Nearer, but nigh, where saintliest spirits dead 

Wait thrice ten thousand years, then live again ; 

And on Lord Buddha, waiting in that sky, 

Came for our sakes the five sure signs of birth, - 10 

So that the Devas knew the signs, and said, 

"Buddha will go again to help the World." 

" Yea ! " spake He, " now I go to help the World 

This last of many times ; for birth and death 

End hence for me and those who learn my Law. 15 

I will go down among the Sakyas, 

Under the southward snows of Himalay, 

Where pious people live and a just King." 

That night the wife of King Suddhodana, 

Maya the Queen, asleep beside her Lord, 20 

Dreamed a strange dream ; dreamed that a star from heaven 

Splendid, six-rayed, in color rosy-pearl, 

Whereof the token was an elephant 

Six-tusked and whiter than Vahuka's milk, — 

Shot through the void and, shining into her, 25 

Entered her womb upon the right. Awaked, 

Bliss beyond mortal mother's filled her breast, 

And over half the earth a lovely light 

Forewent the morn. The strong hills shook ; the waves 

Sank lulled ; all flowers that blow by day came forth 30 

As 'twere high noon ; down to the farthest bells 

Passed the Queen's joy, as when warm sunshine thrills 

11. Deva or Dev (Hind, mythology). — A god; a deitj-; an idol; a king. 

16. Sakyas.— .'\n Aryan clan, seated during the fifth century B.C. on the 
bank of the Kohana, about 100 miles north of the city of Benares, and about 
50 miles south of the foot of the Himalayas. 

19. SuddhAdana.— Chief of the tribe of the Sakyas, and rajah of Kapila- 
vastu (placed somewhere on the confines of Oude and Nepaul). 



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THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 7 

Wood-glooms to gold, and into all the deeps 
A tender whisper pierced. "Oh ye," it said, 
" The dead that are to live, the live who die, 
Uprise, and hear, and hope ! Buddha is come !" 

In this wise was the holy Buddha born. 5 

Queen Maya stood at noon, her days fulfilled, 

Under a Palsa in the Palace-grounds, 

A stately trunk, straight as a temple-shaft, 

With crown of glossy leaves and fragrant blooms ; 

And, knowing the time come — for all things knew — 10 

The conscious tree bent down its boughs to make 

A bower about Queen Maya's majesty. 

And Earth put forth a thousand sudden flowers 

To spread a couch, while, ready for the bath, 

The rock hard by gave out a limpid stream 15 

Of crystal flow. So brought she forth her child 

Pangless — he having on his perfect form 

The marks, thirty and two, of blessed birth ; 

Of which the great news to the Palace came. 

But when they brought the painted palanquin 20 

To fetch him home, the bearers of the poles 

Were the four Regents of the Earth, come down 

From Mount Sumeru — they who write men's deeds 

On brazen plates — the Angel of the East, 

Whose hosts are clad in silver robes, and bear 25 

Targets of pearl : the Angel of the South, 

W^hose horsemen, the Kumbhandas, ride blue steeds, 

With sapphire shields : the Angel of the W^est, 

By Nagas followed, riding steeds blood-red, 

With coral shields : the Angel of the North, 30 

7. Palsa.— The palaga-tree, a familiar leafy forest-tree in India. 

23. Mt. Sumeru is. according to Buddhist belief, the center of the world, 
—as deep in the ocean as it is high above its level. This ocean is inclosed by 
a girdle of rocks, within six other concentric oceans with similar girdles. 
The whole stands again in the genuine ocean known to men. 

27. Kunibhanflas.— A class of demons. 

29 Naga is the name of deified serpents. Their king is Sesha, the sacred 
serpent of Vishnu. 

30. Angel of the 'Sorth.—Kiibera. god of wealth; East, India; West, 
Varuna; South, Yaina. These are the guardians of the world. 



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Environed by his Yakshas, all in gold, 

On yellow horses, bearing shields of gold. 

These, with their pomp invisible, came down 

And took the poles, in caste and outward garb 

Like bearers, yet most mighty gods ; and gods 

Walked free with men that day, though men knew not : 

For Heaven was filled with gladness for Earth's sake, 

Knowing Lord Buddha thus was come again. 



When th' eighth year passed 
The careful King bethought to teach his son 10 

All that a Prince should learn, for still he shunned 
The too vast presage of those miracles. 
The glories and the sufferings of a Buddh. 
So, in full council of his Ministers, 

" Who is the wisest man, great sirs," he asked, 15 

" To teach my Prince that which a Prince should know?" 
Whereto gave answer each with instant voice, 
" King I Viswamitra is the wisest one, 
The farthest-seen in Scriptures, and the best 
In learning, and the manual arts, and all." 20 

Thus Viswamitra came and heard commands ; 
And, on a day found fortunate, the Prince 
Took up his slate of ox-red sandal-wood, 
All-beautified by gems around the rim, 

And sprinkled smooth with dust of emery, 25 

These took lie, and his writing-stick, and stood 
With eyes bent down before the Sage, who said, 
" Child, write this Scripture," speaking low the verse 
*• Gayatri" named, which only High-born hear : — 

Om, tatsaviturvarenyam 30 

Bhargo devasya dlilmahi 

Bliiyo yo na prachodaydt. 

1. Yakshas [later Hindoo myth].— Name of a kind of demigods who 
especially attend on the god of riches. 

29. G^yatri is the name of a Sanskrit hymn used in morning and evening 
worship. 

30, Om. — A combination of letters invested with peculiar sanctity; a sym- 
bol representing the Trinity. 



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THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 9 

*' Acharya, I write," meekly replied 
The Prince, and quickly on the dust he drew — 
Not in one script, but many characters — 
The sacred verse. 

But Viswamitra heard it on his face 5 

Prostrate before the boy ; " For thou," he cried, 

" Art Teacher of thy teachers — thou, not I, 

Art Guru. Oh, I worship thee, sweet Prince ! 

That comest to my school only to show 

Thou knowest all without the books, and know'st 10 

Fair reverence besides." Which reverence 

Lord Buddha kept to all his schoolmasters, 

Albeit beyond their learning taught ; in speech 

Right gentle, yet so wise ; princely of mien. 

Yet softly-mannered ; modest, deferent, 15 

And tender-hearted, though of fearless blood ; 

No bolder horseman in the youthful band 

E'er rode in gay chase of the shy gazelles ; 

No keener driver of the chariot 

In mimic contest scoured the Palace-courts ; 20 

Yet in mid-play the boy would ofttimes pause, 

Letting the deer pass free ; would ofttimes yield 

His half- won race because the laboring steeds 

Fetched painful breath ; or if his princely mates 

Saddened to lose, or if some wistful dream 25 

Swept o'er his thoughts. And ever with the years 

Waxed this compassionateness of our Lord, 

Even as a great tree grows from two soft leaves, 

To spread its shade afar ; but hardly yet 

Knew the young child of sorrow, pain, or tears, 30 

Save as strange names for things not felt by kings, 

Nor ever to be felt. 

But on another day the King said, " Come, 
Sweet son ! and see the pleasaunce of the spring, 

1. Acharya.— Priest. 

8. G^r A. —Teacher; " venerable one.''' 



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And how the fruitful earth is wooed to yield 

Its riches to the reaper ; how my realm — 

Which shall be thiue when the pile flames for me — 

Feeds all its mouths and keeps the King's chest filled. 

Fair is the season with new leaves, bright blooms, 5 

Green grass and cries of plow-time." So they rode 

Into a land of wells and gardens, where. 

All up and down the rich red loam, the steers 

Strained their strong shoulders in the creaking yoke 

Dragging the plows ; the fat soil rose and rolled 10 

In smooth dark waves back from the plow ; who drove 

Planted both feet upon the leaping share 

To make the furrows deep ; among the palms 

The tinkle of the rippling water rang. 

And where it ran the glad earth 'broidered it 15 

With balsams and the spears of lemon-grass. 

Elsewhere were sowers who went forth to sow ; 

And all the jungle laughed with nesting songs, 

And all the thickets rustled with small life 

Of lizard, bee, beetle, and creeping things 20 

Pleased at the spring-time. In the mango-sprays 

The sun-birds flashed ; alone at his green forge 

Toiled the loud coppersmith ; bee-eaters hawked 

Chasing the purple butterflies ; beneath. 

Striped squirrels raced, the mynas perked and picked, 25 

The nine brown sisters chattered in the thorn, 

The pied fish-tiger hung above the pool, 

The egrets stalked among the buffaloes. 

The kites sailed circles in the golden air ; 

Above the painted temple peacocks flew, 30 

The blue doves cooed from every well, far off 

The village drums beat for some marriage-feast : 

All things spoke peace and plenty, and the Prince 

Saw and rejoiced. But, looking deep, he saw 



25. Myna.-Starlingj; probably the talking starling, or religious grackle, 
of India. 
28. Kgret.— A kind of heron. 



THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 11 

The thorns which grow upon this rose of life : 

How the swart peasant sweated for his wage, 

Toiling for leave to live ; and how he urged 

The great-eyed oxen through the flaming hours, 

Goading their velvet flanks : then marked he, too, 5 

How lizard fed on ant, and snake on him, 

And kite on both ; and how the fish-hawk robbed 

The fish-tiger of that which it had seized ; 

The shrike chasing the bulbul, which did chase 

The jeweled butterflies ; till everywhere 10 

Each slew a slayer and in turn was slain. 

Life living upon death 

The Prince Siddartha sighed. " Is this," he said, 
" That happy earth they brought me forth to see ?" 

" Go aside 15 

A space, and let me muse on what ye show." 

So vast a pity filled him, such wide love 

For living things, such passion to heal pain. 

That by their stress his princely spirit passed 

To ecstasy, and, purged from mortal taint 20 

Of sense and self, the boy attained thereat 

Dhyana, first step of " the path." 

Book the Fourth. 

Then strode he forth into the gloom and cried, 
" Channa, awake ! and bring out Kautaka !" 

" What would my lord ?" the charioteer replied — 25 

Slow-rising from his place beside the gate — 
" To ride at night when all the ways are dark ?" 

9. Bulbul.— Nigrhtingale. 

22. The key of the wliole scheme of Buddhist salvation lies in the four 
sublime verities. The first asserts that pain exists; the second, that the 
cause of pain is desire or attachment; tlie thiid, that pain can he ended by 
Nirvana; the fourth shows the way that leads to Nirvana. This way con- 
sists in eight things: liight, Faitli; Kight Judgment; Right Purpose; Riglit 
Practice; Right Language; Riglit Obedience; Right Memory; Right Medi- 
tation. 



12 SELECTED POEMS. 

" Speak low," Siddartha said, " and bring my horse, 

For now the hour is come when I should quit 

This golden prison where my heart lives caged 

To find the truth ; which henceforth will I seek, 

For all men's sake, until the truth be found." 5 

Book the Seventh. 

Nathless the King broke forth, " Ends it in this 
That great Siddartha steals into his realm, 
Wrapped in a clout, shorn, sandaled, craving food 
Of low-borns, he whose life was as a God's ?" 

''Son ! why is this?" 10 

" My Father ! " came reply, 
" It is the custom of my race." 

"Thy race," 
Answered the King, " counteth a hundred thrones 
From Maha Sammat, but no deed like this." 15 

"Not of a mortal line," the Master said, 

" I spake, but of descent invisible, 

The Buddhas who have been and who shall be : 

Of these am I, and what they did I do. " 

" And with all lowly love 20 

Proffer, where it is owed for tender debts, 

The first-fruits of the treasure he hath brought ; 

Which now I proffer." 

Then the King amazed 
Inquired ' ' What treasure ?" and the Teacher took 25 
Meekly the royal palm, and while they paced 
Through worshiping streets — the Princess and the- King 
On either side— he told the things which make 
For peace and pureness, those Four noble Truths 
Which hold all wisdom as shores shut the seas, 30 

Those eight right Rules whereby who will may walk — 

15. Maha.— Great. 



THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 13 

Monarch or slave— upon the perfect Path 

That hath its Stages Four and Precepts Eight, 

Whereby whoso will live — mighty or mean, 

Wise or unlearned, man, woman, young or old — 

Shall soon or late break from the wheels of life 5 

Attaining blest Nirvana. 



Book the Eighth. 
Whilst Buddha spake these things before the King : 

The Books say well, my Brothers ! each man's life 

The outcome of his former living is ; 
The bygone w^'ongs bring forth sorrows and woes 10 

The bygone right breeds bliss. 

That which ye sow ye reap. See yonder fields ! 

The sesanum w^as sesanum, the corn 
Was corn. The Silence and the Darkness knew! 

So is a man's fate born. 15 

He cometh, reaper of the things he sowed, 
Sesanum, corn, so much cast in past birth ; 

And so much weed and poison-stuff, which mar 
Him and the aching earth. 

If he shall labor rightly, rooting these, 20 

And planting w^holesome seedlings where they grew. 

Fruitful and fair and clean the ground shall be, 
And rich the harvest due. 



6. "NirvAna— is the term denoting the final deliverance of the soul 
from transmigration. It is, consequently, the last aim of Buddhistic exist- 
ence, since transmigration is tantamount to a relapse into the evils of the 
w^orld," At present the best Buddhist scholars incline to the belief that 
Nirvana does not mean annihilation, but immovable rest. 

13. Sesanum. — An annual, herbaceous plant, from the seeds of which an 
oil is expressed; also, the small flattish seeds of this plant, sometimes used 
foi- food. 



14 SELECTED POEMS. 

If making none to lack, he throughly purge 
The lie and lust of self forth from his blood ; 

Suffering all meekly, rendering for offence 
Nothing but grace and good : 

If he shall day by day dwell merciful, 5 

Holy and just and kind and true ; and rend 

Desire from where it clings with bleeding roots, 
Till love of life have end : 

He— dying— leaveth as the sum of him 

A life-count closed, whose ills are dead and quit, 10 
Whose good is quick and mighty, far and near, 

So that fruits follow it. 

No need hath such to live as ye name life ; 

That which began in him when he began 
Is finished : he hath wrought the purpose through 15 

Of what did make him Mail. 

Never shall yearnings torture him, nor sins 
Stain him, nor ache of earthly joys and woes 

Invade his safe eternal peace ; nor deaths 
And lives recur. He goes 20 

Unto Nirvana. He is one with Life 
Yet lives not. He is blest, ceasing to be,. 

Om, mani padme, om ! the Dewdrop slips 
Into the shining sea ! 



23. " Oni, mani padiiie, oni! is the ' formula of six syllables ' which has 
acquired much celebrity from the conspicuous part wliich it plays in the 
religion of the Buddliists. It is the first subject which the Tibetans and 
Mongols teach their cliildreu, and it is tiie last prayer which is muttered by 
the dying man. It is looked upon as the essence of all religion and wisdom, 
and the means of attaining eternal bliss. Some suppose that it means 'O 
tlie jewel in tiie lotus; ' the jeirel referring to the saint Avalokiteswara him- 
self, and in the lotus referring to the belief that he was born from a lotus. 
It probably means 'Salvation (Oni) is the jewel-lotus (mani-padme}.' " 



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THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 15 

The First good Level is Rigid Doctrine. Walk 
In fear of Dharma, shunning all offence ; 

In heed of Karma, which doth make men's fate ; 
In lordship over sense. 

The Second is Right Purpose. Have good-will 5 

To all that lives, letting unkindness die 
And greed and wrath ; so that your lives be made 

Like soft airs passing by. 

The Third is Right Discourse. Govern the lips 

As they were palace-doors, the King within ; 10 

Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words 
Which from that presence win. 

The Fourth is Right Behavior. Let each act 

Assoil a fault or help a merit grow : 
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads 15 

Let love through good deeds show. 



More is the treasure of the Law than gems ; 

Sweeter than comb its sweetness ; its delights 
Delightful past compare. Thereby to live 

Hear the Five Rules aright : — 20 

Kill not— for Pity's sake— and lest ye stay 
The meanest thing upon its upward way. 

Give freely and receive, but take from none 
By greed, or force or fraud, what is his own. 



2. Dharma [virtue, duty, law; from clhri, to support] comprehends 
the revelations, dogmas, and their precepts; and, in a strict sense, cos- 
mology and cosmography, mythology, metempsychosis, and the theory of 
salvation." The law and scriptures of Buddhism. 

3. "Karma [Skt. karman, act, action, work, fate as the consequence of 
actsK In Huidoo religion one's acts-considered as determining his lot after 
death, and in a following existence; the aggregate of merits and demerits 
of a sentient being, in one of his successive existences. Controls destiny of 
all sentient beings, not by judicial reward and punishment, but by the re-<ult 
of cause into effect." 



16 SELECTED POEMS. 

Bear not false witness, slander not, nor lie ; 
Truth is the speech of inward purity. 

Shun drugs and drinks which work the wit abuse ; 
Clear minds, clean bodies, need no Soma juice. 

Touch not thy neighbor's wife, neither commit 
Sins of the flesh unlawful and unfit. 



Here endeth what I write 
Who love the Master for his love of us. 
A little knowing, little have I told 
Touching the Teacher and the Ways of Peace. 10 

And how — in fullness of the times — it fell 

The Buddha died, the great Tathagato, 

Even as a man 'mongst men, fulfilling all : 

And how a thousand thousand crores since then 

Have trod the Path which leads whither he went 15 

Unto Nirvana where the Silence lives. 



4. Soma juice — A drink having intoxicating properties, and playing an 
important part in sacrifices. 
14. Crore.— Ten million, 



THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 17 



II. 

The Light of the World. 

(selections.) 

Proem. 

The Sovereign Voice spake, once more, in mine ear : 
" Write, now, a song unstained by any tear !" 

" What shall I write?" I said. The Voice replied, 
" Write what We tell thee of The Crucified !" 

" How shall I write," I said, " who am not meet 5 

One word of that sweet speaking to repeat ?" 

" It shall be given unto thee ! Do this thing !" 
Answered the Voice : " Wash thy lips clean and sing !" 

At Bethlehem. 
• • • • • 

So— or in such wise — those rude shepherds heard 

The Angels singing clear ; when not one word 10 

Wiser ones caught that night — solemn and still — 

Of their high errand : " Peace ! Good-will ! Good-will !" 

Ah ! think we listened there, 

With opened heart and ear. 
And heard, in truth, as these men say they heard, 15 

On flock, and rock, and tree. 

Raining such melody ; 
Heaven's love descending in that loveliest word, 



18 SELECTED POEMS. 

" Peace !" Not at first ! not yet I 

Our Earth had to forget 
Burden of birth, and travail of slow years ; 

But now the dark time done ! 

Daylight at length begun ! 5 

First gold of Sun in sight, dispelling fears ! 

Peace, pledged, at last, to Man ! 

Oh ! if there only ran 
Thrill of such surety through one human soul, 

Would not the swift joy start 10 

From beating heart to heart, 
Lighting all lands ; leaping from pole to pole ? 

Peace, Peace — to come ! to be ! 

If such were certainty 
Far-off, at length, at latest, any while, , 15 

What woes were hard to bear ? 

What sorrow worth one tear ? 
Murder would soften, black Despair would smile. 

But, heralded on high, 

From midnight's purple sky ' 20 

Dropped like the sudden rain which brings the flowers ; 

Peace ! Aye to dwell with men 

No strife, no wars ! and, then. 
The coupled comfort of those golden hours. 

Good-will ! Consider this, 25 

What easy, perfect bliss 
If, over all the Earth the one change spread 

That Hate and Fraud should die. 

And all in amity, 
Let go rapine, and wrath, and wrong, and dread ! 30 



THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 19 

What lack of Paradise 

If, in angelic wise, 
Each unto Each, as to himself, were dear ? 

If we in souls descried, 

Whatever forms might hide, 5 

Own brother, and own sister, everywhere ? 

All this, — not whispered low 

To one heart, full of woe 
By reason of blood-reddened fields of Earth, 

By sight of Fear and Hate, 10 

And policies of state, 
And evil fruits which have from these their birth : 

But, through their ears, to us 

Straitly imparted thus 
With pomp of glittering Angels, and their train ; 15 

And radiance of such light 

As maketh mid-day night, 
And heavenliest speech of Heaven, not heard again 

Till these things come to pass ! 

Nay, if it be — alas ! — 20 

A vision, let us sleep and dream it true ! 

Or— sane, and broad-awake. 

For its great sound and sake, 
Take it, and make it Earth's, and peace ensue I 



The Parables. 



*' Yet most He loved to teach of Love. S5 
Wherefore the tale was of a certain man 
Dwelling — (we knew him) — by Tiberias, 
That had two sons. And one, the Prodigal, 
Had asked his portion, gathered it, and went 



20 SELECTED POEMS. 

To some far country, where he wasted all 
In riotous living ; till the ill times fell, 
And he had nought, and herded swine, and filled 
His belly with the husks. Sitting at meat 
In Simon's house, our Master took this tale, 5 

And featly decked it forth with Wisdom's wealth, 
Relating how that son ' came to himself 
And cried : ' I will arise and go unto 
My Father, and will say that I have sinned, 
Sinned against Heaven, and. Father ! before thee, 10 

And am not worthy to be called thy Son, 
Only thy hireling servant ! Make me that ! ' 
Then he arose, and came. And, oh ! what heart 
Throbbed not amongst us, while the Master told 
Tenderly, — meaning all the world to hear, — 15 

How— yet a long way off— his Father saw, 
Saw him, and had compassion ; nay — and ran, 
And fell upon his neck, and kissed the boy 
Mouth to mouth. Father's lips on Son's lips pressed^ 
Staying his words of sorrowful self-blame 20 

"With dear impatience ; — leading us to learn 
That God's love runneth faster than our feet 
To meet us stealing back to Him and peace, 
And kisses dumb our shame, nay, and puts on 
The best robe, bidding Angels bring it forth, 25 

While Heaven makes festival ; for Angel's meat 
Is happiness of man." 



The Great Consummation. 

' ' We were in Gadara 
And^I remember — 'twas a summer's eve. 
Amid the yellow daisies of the Lake 30 

28. Gadara, the capital of Peraea, in Coelo Syria, about four miles east- 
ward of the Sea of Tiberias. Here, or near here, dirist healed the two men 
possessed of devils. Matt. 8 : 28; Mark 5:1. 



THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 21 

The children gathered round Him, brought from far 
Only that he might touch them. 'Twas that horn- 
When He rebuked His Twelve, saying, 'Suffer these 
To come to Me ! the Kingdom is of such ! 

Who shall receive it as a little child 5 

Entereth therein ! ' So sitting with a babe 

Asleep upon His breast, and on His knee 

One round-eyed ' Angel of the Kingdom,' nursed 

Full fatherly :— a shallop drove its keel 

Sharp on the tinkling shingle, and thence gave lo 

My Brother to our band. For I had told 

At Bethany how great the Master was ; 

How wise, how holy, how compassionate. 

And El'azar sped, running through the reeds ; 

And thrust past peasants, mothers, and the Twelve ; 15 

And kneeled and prayed : ' Good Master ! wherewithal 

Shall I gain Life eternal ? ' Jesus said : 

' Call me not good ! None is all good save One ! 

Thou knowest the Commandments ? ' at those words 

Reciting Moses. Quoth my brother, then, 20 

' All these have I observed from my youth up ! ' 

And Jesus, seeing, loved him ; kissed his head 

As Rabbis will when scholars answer well ; 

But bade him go his way, sell all his goods, 

And give his shekels to the poor, and buy 25 

Treasures in Heaven. Thereat El'azar turned 

Sorrowful, for he was a Ruler, owning vines, 

Milch-kine and olive-yards. Yet, that kind kiss 

Lay strong upon him ; and he did this thing 

And gave much wealth, and lived for better gold, 30 

And grew the Master's friend, faithful, and close, 

Ministering, when we came into Bethany." 

" Then, when the first day of the week was dark. 
Alone I wended to His sepulcher. 
Bearing fair water, and the frankincense, 35 



22 SELECTED POEMS. 

And linen, that my Lord's sweet body sleep 

Well in the rock. And, while my woful feet 

Passed through the gate, and up the paved ascent 

Along the Second Wall, over the Hill, 

Into that Garden, hard by Golgotha, — 5 

The Morning brightened over Moab's peaks, 

Touched the great Temple's dome with crimson fires, 

Lit Ophel and Moriah rosy-red. 

Made Olivet all gold, and, in the pools, 

In Hinnom laid a sudden lance of flame. 10 

And, from the thorn-trees, brake the waking-songs' 

Of little birds ; and every palm-tree's top 

Was full of doves that cooed, as knowing not 

How Love was dead, and Life's dear glory gone. 

And the World's hope lay in the tomb with Hitn ; 15 

Which now I spied, — that hollow in the rock 

Under the camphire leaves. Yet, no guards there 

To help me roll the stone ! nay, and no stone ! 

It lay apart, leaving the door a-gape, 

Aijd through the door, as I might dimly see, 20 

The scattered wrappings of the Burial-night, 

Pale gleams amidst the gloom. Not waiting, then, — 

Deeming our treasure taken wickedly— 

I sped ; and came to Peter, and to John ; 

And cried : ' Our Lord is stolen from His grave 25 

And none to tell where He is borne away ! ' 



5. Golgotha or Calvary — A small hill on the north side of Mt. Zion; a 
place of execution. Mark 15 : 2-2; Matt. 27 : 33. 

6. Moab — The land eastward and southward of the Dead Sea. Jer. 
48:2-39; Amos 2: 2. 

8. Opliel.— A part of ancient Jerusalem, outside the south wall of the 
Temple. At its foot was the pool of Siloam. 2 Ch. 27 : 3. 

8. Moriah.— A hill adjacent to Jerusalem. Here Abraham offered his 
son. Gen. 22. When Solomon built the Temple on it, it became included in 
the city. 2 Chron. 3 : 1. 

9. Olivet or 3It. of Olives.— About 625 paces east of Jerusalem. This 
is the spot whence Our Saviour ascended into heaven in sight of His apos- 
tles. Luke 19 -.29. 

10. Hinnom. — A valley or rather ravine on the south side of Jenisaleni. 
This vallej' was once selected, for its shade and privacy, for the worship of 
Moloch. From some point in these cliffs tradition relates that Judas 
sought his desperate end. Josh. 15 ; 8, 



THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 26 

Thereat, they ran together, came, and saw ; 

And entered in ; and found the linen-cloths 

Scattered ; the rock-bed empty ; and, amazed. 

Back to their house they went. But I drew nigh 5 

A second time, alone ; heart-broken now 

The bright day seeming blackest night to me, 

The small birds mockers, and the City's noise — 

Waking within the walls — hateful and vain. 

. ... . Weeping hard 10 

" With these thoughts, like to snake-fangs, stinging me 
My left hand on the stone I laid, and shut 
The eager sunshine off with my right hand, 
Kneeling, and looking in the Sepulcher. 

" Coming closer, I espied 15 

Two men who sate there, — very watchfully-;- 

One at the head, the other at the foot ' 

Of that stone table where my Lord had lain. 

Oh ! I say ' men ' — I should have known no men 

Had eyes like theirs, shapes so majestical„ 20 

Tongues tuned to such a music as the tone 

Wherewith they questioned me : ' Why weepest thou ? * 

' Ah, Sirs ! ' I said, ' ray Lord is ta'en away, 

Nor wot we whither ! ' and thereat my tears 

Blotted all seeing. So, I turned to wipe 25 

The hot droits off ; and, look ! Another one 

Standing behind me, arid my foolish eyes 

Hard gazing on Him, and not knowing Him ! 

Indeed, I deemed this was the Gardener 

Keeping the Trees and Tomb, so was He flesh ; 30 

So living, natural, and made like man 

Albeit, if I had marked — if any ray 

Of watchful hope had helped me— such a look. 

Such Presence, beautiful and pure ; such light 

Of loveliest compassion in His face, 35 

Had told my beating heart and blinded eyes 

Who this must be. But I— my brow i' the dust — 

Heard Him say softly : ' Wherefore weepest thou ? 



24 SELECTED POEMS. 

Whom seekest thou V 

' Sir/ said I, ' if 'tis thou hast borne Him hence, 
Tell me where thou hast laid Him. Then will I 

Bear Him away ! ' * 

For, while I lay there, sobbing at His feet 5 

The word He spake— my Lord ! my King ! my Christ ! 
Was my name : 

' Mary ! * 

*' No language had I then. 
No language have I now ! only I turned 10 

My quick glance upward ; saw Him ; knew Him ! sprang 
Crying : ' Rabboni ! — Lord ! my Lord ! dear Lord ! ' " 



Peace beginning to be 

Deep as the sleep of the sea 
When the stars their faces glass 15 

In its blue tranquillity : 

Hearts of men upon earth, 

Never once still from their birth, 

To rest as the wild waters rest 
With the colors of heaven on their breast ! 20 

Love, which is sunlight of peace, 
Age by age to increase 
Till anger and hatreds are dead, 

And sorrow and death shtill cease : 

" Peace on earth and good-will ! " 25 

Souls that are gentle and still 

Hear the first music of this 

Far-off, infinite bliss ! 



FEABLS OF THE FAITH. 25 



III. 
Pearls of the Faith. 

"It is a custom of many pious Muslims to employ in their devotions a 
three-stringed chaplet, each string containing thirty-three beads, and each 
bead representing one of the 'ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah,' 
whenever this— among many other religious uses— is made of it. The Koran 
bids tliem 'celebrate Allah with an abundant celebration,' and on certain 
occasions— such as during tlie intervals of the Tarawih night service in 
Ramadhan— the Faithful pass these ninety-nine beads of the rosary through 
their fingers, repeating with each ' Name of God ' an ejaculation of praise 
and worship. Such an exercise is called Zikr, or ' remembrance,' and the 
rosary Masba*^hah. 

" In the following pages of varied verse I have enumerated these ninety- 
nine ' beautiful names,' and appended to each— from tiie point of view of 
an Indian Mohammedan— some illustrative legend, tradition, record, or 
comment, drawn from diverse Oriental sources ; occasionally paraphrasing 
(as closely as possible) from the text of the Koran itself, any particular 
passage containing the sacred Title, or casting light upon ii.^''— Extract from 
Preface. 

8 

Call Him Muhaimin, " Help in dangers hour^'''' 
Protector of the true wlio trust His power. 

The spider and the dove !— what thing is weak 

If Allah makes it strong ? 
The spider and the dove ! — if He protect, 5 

Fear thou not foeman's wrong. 

From Mecca to Medina fled our Lord, 

The horsemen followed fast ; 
Into a cave to shun their murderous i-age, 

Muhammad, weary, passed. 10 

Quoth Abu Bekr, '' If they see, we die !" 

Quoth Ebn Foheir, "Away !" 
The guide Abdallah said, "The sand is deep, 

Those footmarks will betray, " 



26 SELECTED POEMS. 

Then spake our Lord, " We are not four, but Five ; 

' He who protects ' is here. 
Come ! Al-Muhaimin now will blind their eyes ; 

Enter, and have no fear." 

The band drew^ nigh ; one of the Koreish cried, 5 

"Search ye out yonder cleft, 
I see the print of sandalled feet which turn 

Thither, upon the left !" 

But when they drew unto the cavern's mouth, 

Lo ! at its entering-in, 10 

A ring-necked desert dove sate on her eggs ; 
The maid cooed soft within. 

And right athwart the shadow of the cave 

A spider's web was spread ; 
The creature hung upon her net at watch ; 15 

Unbroken was each thread. 

" By Thammuz' blood," the unbelievers cried, 

" Our toil and time are lost ; 
Where doves hatch and the spider spins her snare 

No foot of man hath crossed !" 20 

Thus did a desert bird and spider guard 

The blessed Prophet then ; 
For all things serve their Maker and their God 

Better than thankless men. 

Allah-al-Muhaimin ! shield and save 25 

Us, for his sake within that cave. 



17. Thainmuz.— A. Syrian deity (the same as the Phenician Adon or 
Adonis)^ in whose honor a feast was held every year, beginning: with the 
new moon of the month Tlianinuiz or Tamniuz. This month corresponds to 
part of June and part of July. 

21. Spider.— One of the SCiras of the Koran, the 39th, is named after this 

b. Al-Muhaiiiim — The Help in Peril. 



PEARLS OF THE FAITH. 27 

35 

He is the " Pardoner^'''' and his Scripture hath — 
*' Paradise is for them that check their wrath^ 
And i^ardon sins; so Allah doth with souls ; 
He loveth best him who himself controls.''^ 

Know ye of Hassan's slave ? Hassan the son 5 

Of Ali. In the camp at Ras-al-hadd 

He made a banquet unto sheikhs and lords, 

Rich dressed and joyous ; and a slave bore round, 

Smoking with new-cooked pillaw, Badhan's dish 

Carved from rock-crystal, with the feet in gold, 10 

And garnets round the rim ; but the boy slipped 

Against the tent-rope, and the precious dish 

Broke into shards of beauty on the board, 

Scalding the son of Ali. One guest cried, 

"Dog! wert thou mine, for this thing thou shouldst 

howl !" 15 

Another, ""Wretch! thou meritest to die." 
And yet another, " Hassan ! give me leave 
To smite away this swine's head with my sword !" 
Even Hassan's self was moved ; but the boy fell 
Face to the earth and cried, " My lord ! 'tis writ, 20 

' Paradise is for them that check their wrath.'' " 
" 'Tis writ so," Hassan said ; " I am not wroth." 
" My lord !" the boy sobbed on, "also 'tis writ, 
' Pardon the tresjDasser.'' " Hassan replied, 
"'Tis written — I remember — I forgive." 25 

" Now is the blessing of the Most High God 
On thee, dear master !" cried the happy slave, 
" For He — 'tis writ — ' loves the heneflcent.'' " 
"Yea ! I remember, and I thank tiiee, slave," 
Quoth Hassan ; — "better is one noble verse 30 

Fetched from 'the Book,' than gold and crystal brought 
From Yaman's hills. Lords ! he hath marred the dish, 
But mended fault with wisdom, See, my slave I 



28 SELECTED POEMS. 

I give thee freedom, and this purse to buy 
The robe and turban of a Muslim freed." 

Al-Ghdfir ! pardon us, as we 
Forgive a brother's injury. 



78 

Praise Him, Al-Barr ! Whose goodness is so great ; 5 
Who is so loving and compassionate. 

Pity ! for He is Pitiful;— a king 

Is likest Allah, not in triumphing 

'Mid enemies o'erthrown, nor seated high 

On stately gold, nor if the echoing sky 10 

Rings with his name, but when sweet mercy sways 

His words and deeds. The very best man prays 

For Allah's help, since feeble are the best ; 

And never shall man reach th' angelic rest 

Save by the vast compassion of Heaven's King. 15 

Our Prophet once, Ayesha answering, 

Spake this : " I shall not enter that pure place, 

Even I, except through Allah's covering grace." 

Even our Lord (on him be peace !); oh, see ! 

If he besought the Sovereign Clemency, 20 

How must we supplicate it ? Truly thus 

Great need there is of Allah's grace for us. 

And that we live compassionate ! 

Hast seen 
The record written of Salah-ud-Deen 25 

The Sultan ? how he met, upon a day, 
In his own city on the public way, 



3. Al-Gh4fir.— The Pardoner. 
5. Al-Barr.- The Good. 
16. Ayesha.— The favorite wife of Mahomet's later years. 



PEARLS OF THE FAITH. 29 

A woman whom they led to die. The veil 

Was stripped from off her weeping face, and pale 

Her shamed cheeks were, and wild her dark fixed eye, 

And her lips drawn with terror at the cry 

Of the harsh people, and the rugged stones 5 

Borne in their hands to break her, flesh and bones ; 

For the law stood that sinners such as she 

Perish by stoning, and this doom must be ; 

So went the wan adulteress to her death. 

High noon it was, and the hot khamseen's breath 10 

Blew from the desert sands and parched the town. 

The crows gasped, and the kine went up and down 

With lolling tongues ; the camels moaned ; a crowd 

Pressed with their pitchers, wrangling high and loud, 

About the tank ; and one dog by a well, 15 

Nigh dead with thirst, lay where he yelped and fell, 

Glaring upon the water out of reach, 

And praying succor in a silent speech. 

So piteous were its eyes. Which when she saw, 

This woman from her foot her shoe did draw, 20 

Albeit death-sorrowful, and looping up 

The long silk of her girdle, made a cup 

Of the heel's hollow, and thus let it sink 

Until it touched the cool black water's brink ; 

So filled th' embroidered shoe, and gave a draught 25 

To the spent beast, which whined, and fawned, and quaff'ed 

Her kind gift to the dregs ; next licked her hand. 

With such glad looks that all might understand 

He held his life from her ; then, at her feet 

He followed close, all down the cruel street, 30 

Her one friend in that city. 

But the king. 
Riding within his litter, marked this thing. 
And how the woman, on her way to die, 
Had such compassion for the misery 35 

10. Khamseen.— A hot, southerly wind, blovving from the desert. 



30 SELECTED POEMS. 

Of til at parched hound : " Take off her chain, and place 

The veil once more above the sinner's face, 

And lead her to her house in peace !". he said, 

" The law is that the people stone thee dead 

For that which thou hast wrought ; but there is come, 5 

Fawning ar5und thy feet, a witness dumb. 

Not heard upon thy trial ; this brute beast 

Testifies for thee, sister ! whose weak breast 

Death could not make ungentle. I hold rule 

In Allah's stead, who is ' the Merciful,' 10 

And hope for mercy ; therefore go thou free — ' 

I dare not show less pity unto thee !" 

As we forgive — and more than we — 
Ya Barr ! good God ! shoiv clemency. 



79 

Praise Him ^ Al-Tawwdb ; if a sold repents, 15 

Seven times and seventy times thy Lord relents. 

At the gates of Paradise, 

Whence the angry Angels drave him, 

Adam heard in gentle wise 

xVllah's whisper, which forgave him : 20 

" Go," it said, " from this fair place, 

Ye that sinned ; yet not despairing ; 

Haply there shall come a grace 

And a guidance ; and in fearing 

Me, and following My will, 25 

Blessed shall your seed be still. " 

Know ye not that God receives 
Gladly back the soul which grieves ! 
• :> Know ye not that He relents 

Ere the sinner well repents ? 30 



il 



PEARLS OF THE FAITH. 31 

Terribly His justice burns, 
Easily His anger turns. 

Spake our Lord : "If one draw near 
Unto God — with praise and prayer — 
Half a cubit, God will go 5 

Twenty leagues to meet him so." 



91 

" Propitious''' is He unto those that show 
Compassion to His creatures ; praise Him so. 

" No beast of earth, no fowl that flies with wings," 
Saith the great Book, " but is a people, too ; 10 

From Allah sprang their life, and unto Him 
They shall return : with such heed what ye do !" 

There came before our Lord a certain one 
"Who said, "O Prophet ! as I passed the wood, 

I heard the voice of youngling doves which cried, 15 

While near the nest their pearl-necked mother cooed." 

" Then in my cloth I tied those fledglings twain, 
But all the way the mother fluttered nigh ; 

See ! she hath followed hither !" Spake our Lord : 
" Open thy knotted cloth, and stand thou by." 20 

But when she spied her nestlings, from the palm 

Down flew the dove, of peril unaf eared 
So she might succor these. " Seest thou not," 

Our Lord said, " how the heart of this poor bird 

** Grows, by her love, greater than his who rides 25 

Full-faced against the spear-blades ? thinkest thou 

Such fire divine was kindled to be quenched ? 
I tell ye nay ! Put back upon the bough 



32 SELECTED POEMS. 

" The nest she elaimeth thus. I tell ye nay ! 

From Allah's self cometh this wondrous love : 
Yea ! and I swear by Him who sent me here, 

He is more tender then a nursing dove, 

" More pitiful to men than she to these. 5 

Therefore fear God in whatsoe'er ye deal 

With the dumb peoples of the wing and hoof. 
Yours are they ; yet whene'er ye lift the steel 

" To slay for meat, name first the name of God, 
Saying ' Bi 'sm 'illah ! God judge thee and me ! 10 

God gives thee patience to endure to-day 
The portion that He hath allotted thee.' 

"So shall ye eat and sin not ; else the blood 
Crieth against you." Thus our Prophet spake. 

And Islam doeth it, naming God's name 15 

Before the slaughter, — for that white dove's sake. 

By those dumb mouths be ye forgiven, 
Ere ye are heard pleading with Heaven. 



30 



Al-Hddil! ^^ Jvst LordP'' we magnify 

Thy righteous Law, ivhich shall the whole world try. 20 

God will roll up, w'hen this world's end approacheth, 
The broad blue spangled hangings of the sky. 

Even as As-Sigill rolleth up his record, 

And seals and binds it when a man doth die. 

8. This is the origrin of the custom of Muslim hunters and butchers, who 
pronounce the formula of exctise and pity before slaying any animal. 
2.'i. As-Sislll.— Angel of Registration. 



PEARLS OF THE FAITH. 33 

Then the false worshippers, and what they follow, 
Will to the pit, like "stones of hell," descend ; ' 

But true believers shall hear Angels say i no-, 
" This is your day ; be joyous without end." 

In that hour dust shall lie on many faces, 5 

And many faces shall be glad and bright ; 

Ye who believe, trust and be patient always, 
Until God judges, for He judges right. 

Give us to pass before TJiy throne 

Among the number of Thine own ! 10 



34 SELECTED POEMS. 



IV. 
With Sa'di* in the Garden; 

OR, 

The Book of Love. 

Being the " Ishk " ^ or Tliird Chapter of the '' Bostdii" ' of the 
Pe7^sian poet Sa''di, emhodied in a Dialogue held in the 
Garden of the Taj Mahal,* at Agra.^ 

Proem. 

Sweet Friends ! who love the Music of the Sun, 
And listened — glad and gracious — many an one, 
While, on a light-strung lyre, I sought to tell 
Indian Siddartha's wisdom ; . . . 

and to count each golden bead 
Of Allah's names of 'Beauty ; . . . 6 

— once more come. 
And listen to the Vina and the Drum ! 
Come once more with me from our somber skies 
To hear great Sa'di's tuneful mysteries — 10 

" Nightingale of a thousand lays" — for he 
Will, 'mid the Garden, sing in many a key 

1. Sa'di.— A Persian poet. 

2. Ishk.— Passion; love. 

3. Bostan.— Garden. 

4. Taj Malial.— raj, an object of distinguished excellence; Mahal, a pal- 
ace. "Tomb, monuments, screen, walls, and pillars are covered with mo- 
saic work, chiefly of flowers and scrolls, with many passages from the 
Koran. The scriptural texts are in black marble, but the flowers and scrolls 
are of jasper, carnelian, agate, and other semi-precious stones, with hei'e 
and there an addition of mother-of-peail. We saw a single flower contain- 
ing more than thirty pieces of stone, and yet the whole flower was not more 
than an inch in diameter. Bishop Heber says the builders ' designed like 
Titans and finished like jewelers.' " 

5. Agra.— A city in the British N. W^ Provinces in India. 
8. Vina.— Hindu musical instrument of the guitar family. 



35 



Rare Persian airs. But, tell them first, my Song ! — 

Lest they do thee, and me, and Sa'di wrong — 

To come with hearts to gentle thoughts inclined, 

Since this is only for the wise and kind ; 

And, of itself, our Garden shuts its gate 5 

On him that's hard, cold, uncompassionate ; 

But opens wide its alleys, green and still, 

To Sesame of Love and fair Good-will ! 

Taj Mahal. 

A passion, and a worship, and a faith 

Writ fast in alabaster, so that Earth 10 

Hath nothing anywhere of mortal toil 

So fine-wrought, so consummate, so supreme — 

So, beyond praise. Love's loveliest monument— 

As what, in Agra, upon Jumna's bank. 

Shah Jahan builded for his Lady's grave. 15 

For Mumtaz-i-Mahal, the " Exalted one" — 

Queen of her Sultan's heart, and Hindostan — 

Here by her Lord and Lover laid to sleep. 

And here, too, sleeps the stately King who planned 

This splendor for his sorrow — Shah Jahan — 20 

Twelve score years back Sultan of India, 

Ruler august, and sire of Aurangzebe. 

Queen Arjamand and the Dagger. 

Mirza. They tell this story of Queen Arjamand : 
So fair she was, so debonair, so wise. 

The heart of Shah Jahan slept in her lap : 35 

Her mouth issued the King's decrees, her hands 
Gave provinces away, and great commands. 
No night but at her feet the Emperor 
Laid down his cap of lordship and his sword 
To take soft counsel from her faithful lips. 30 

Which many grudged. . . . 

14. Jumna.— The principal feeder of the Ganges. 



36 SELECTED POEMS. 

"If we could turn His Majesty," said these, 

"From Muntaz, that were well wrought for the State, 

Whose banner is become a Persian shift ! 

Mashallah ! will naught dull those dazzling eyes ?" 

And some one whispered : " Best find newer eyes 5 

More dazzling, killing passion with its like ; 

Since one love-chamber have these hearts of men. 

And she who enters thrusts the other forth. 

There is that slave-girl, come from Jessulmere, 

A brown pearl of the Prophet's Paradise, 10 

Wondrously fair — as none e'er saw : give word 

They deck her with the garments of Muntaz, 

And hang the Queen's pearls round her throat, and bring 

The Rajpootni into the Queen's own room 

When she is gone — so may my lord the King 15 

Be tenderly beguiled, and Mumtaz scorned." 

And this the Palace Ladies swore was good. 

Saheb. Surely, 'twas perilous ? 

Mirza. Hazrat ! the girl 

Knew — for they told her— she must die, or gain 20 

Life, and long favor, and large wealth in gold. 
At moment when her veil should drop, and show 
Full moonlight of her face. To reign, see you. 
First in that Court, to win the eyes of him 
Who ruled upon the " Peacock-throne," and stretched 25 



4. Mashallali.— " As God wills." [Sha, will ; and Allah.] Expresses 
wonder or admiration. 

9. Jessulmere.— A fortified city of Rajpootaua, capital of a protected 
state of the same name. 

14. llajpoot (Rajput).— A memberof a Hindu race who regard themselves 
as descendants of the ancient warrior caste— the Aryan race of warriors 
wlio established themselves on the lofty table-lands of Hindustan some two 
thousand years before our era. The Rajputs claim a descent from tlie god 
Rama. " It is at Oudeypore, above every other city in India, that we find 
the high representatives of tlae chief Rajput tribes, and of purest blood, till 
it has passed into a proverb that ' a courtier of the court of Oudeypore is the 
model of bon-ton for all India.' This family (of Oudeypore) not only 
opposed the MuS'^ulinan invasion, but they preserved their purity of caste at 
the cost of blood and treasure, by sundering, during all the Mohammedan 
rule, every form of connection with the imperial famil}^" 

19. Hazrat.- A title of hOTior; a gentleman. 

2.5. Peacock-throne.—" The fort or citadel of Delhi had formerly about 
a dozen large buildings in it, and many small ones ; but nearly all" of the 
latter, and some of the former, were destroyed at the time of the Mutinj', or 



37 

Hands of command from Balkli to Himalay, 

Was worth some risk, it seemed, of fierce farrash. 

Therefore — half-willing, half-constrained — she sate 

Trembling, upon the silks of Mumtaz' bed, 

In vestments of the beauteous Queen, her face 5 

Wrapped in the golden chuddur. Oh, 'tis known 

What fell, because a Palace maiden heard — 

Listening outside the marble jali-work — 

And told it, word for word, to Arjamand. 
Dilazdr. Good Mirza ! what befell ? 10 

Mirza. The Sultan came 

Clad in his private dress— white muslin clasped 

With one great pearl, white cap and jeweled shoes — 

And, throwing down his scimitar and shawl, 

Spake with a gentle cmile : " Light of my Life ! 15 

Once more I shut the great loud world away 

And come to reign in this one realm I love, 

The heart of Mumtaz !" Kose the Rajpootni, 

All quaking underneath her rich disguise. 

And bent full lowly to the King of Hind, 20 



within a few years after it. The finest of the public ones were preserved, 
and they are certainly g^reat curiosities. There are two large halls — the 
Dewan-i-Am and the Dewan-i-Khas. The Dewani-Khas is smaller than the 
other, and is more like a pavilion than a room, being open on three sides. 
They say that the ceiling was once composed of gold and silver filigree- 
work, made by the jewelers of Delhi ; the same room contained the famous 
Peacock-throne. Tiiis throne was six feet lojig by four feet broad, com- 
posed of gold inlaid with precious gems. It was surrounded by a gold can- 
opy supported on twelve pillars of the same material, around the canopy 
being a fiinge of pearls. On each side of the throne stood two umbrellas, 
symbols of royalty, formed of crimson velvet richly embroidered with gold 
thread and pearls, and with handles of solid gold eight feet long, studded 
with diamonds. The back of the throne was a representation of the ex- 
panded tail of a peacock, the natural colors of which were imitated by 
sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and other precious gems. Its value was esti- 
mated, by a French jeweler who saw it. at $30,000,000 It was carried away 
by the ereat Persian conqueror, Nadir Shah, when he captured Delhi in 
1738. Tlie place where the throne stood is occupied by a block of marble 
bearing the world-famed inscription, 'Agar furduse barii-i-zamin ast, hamin 
ast, hamin ast, hamin ast/ (If there be an elysium on earth, it is this, it is 
this, it is this). 

2. Farrash.— Executioner. 

0. Chuddur, chuddah.— In India a square piece of cloth of any kind; 
especially the ample sheet commonly worn as a mantle by women in Bengal. 

8. Jali-work.— Pierced screen work, especially in marble or stone, 
characteristic of Indian house decoration under Moslem influence. 



38 . SELECTED POEMS. 

And kissed his feet ; — then, let her chuddur fall, 

And — lo ! it was not Muntaz there ! his Queen ! 

But that strange, lovely, frightened girl, with throat 

Heaving, eyes gleaming, hands on bosom clasped, 

Who murmured : " Lord of all the world ! thy slave 5 

Waiteth thy will that she may live or die." 

Galbadan. Doubtless he drew his blade, and slew her there ! 

Saheb. lie was a man, 'tis writ, of gravity ; 
Nice in his pride, terrible in his wrath, 
I shudder, Mirza ! for your slave-maiden. 10 

Mlrza. Good Sir ! you do not know how fair she was ! 
Otherwise wlio had ventured? On his lips 
Ended even in beginning those dread words 
Which leaped from royal anger. . . . 

Allah makes 15 

Sometimes a face and form to smite man's soul 
AVith witchery of subtlest symmetry. 
And she was such ! . . . 

Nay ! and she marked 
The first wrath in the Sultan's countenance 20 

Flicker and pass as flame doth pass away 
When rain falls on the sparkling of a brand : 
So gently dropped upon his mind the rain 
Of wonder, pity, will of gentilesse : 

And, when she sank upon her face, and sobbed, 25 

" Lord of the Age ! forgive me ! send me hence 
Alive ! I was not told how great thou art, 
How terrible ! how base and bold my deed !" 
He raised the Rajpoot girl, gazed on her face 
With softening eyes, and, while her heart beat quick, 30 

Spake : " Get thee hence alive ! Fairest thou art 
Of Allah's works. . . . 
Yet one thing fairer is than even thou. 
And sweeter far for me to have and keep, 
The faith I held and hold to her whose name 35 

Thou art not meet to hear ! Begone ! begone !" 



39 

iSaJieb. Right royal ! and nowise of the Mogul type, 
As I have read. What next befell that slave, 
With respite of eye-wink ? 

Mirza. She glided forth, 

Seeking escape ; but those that heard the words 5 

And saw all done, laid hands on her, and haled 
The weeping maid to angry Arjamand, 
Dressed as she was in the Queen's cloth of gold, 
Wearing the Palace-pearls, ungirt, new-bathed. 
Painted, and henna-stained, and scented sweet. 10 

They told what passed, and how the Sultan spake. 
She cowering at the proud Sultana's foot. 

Dilhazdr. Then the Queen stabbed her to the heart — was't 
not? 
Straight to the heart ! Wallah ! I would have stabbed ! 

Mirza. Then the Queen drew the dagger from her waist, 15 
A knife of watered steel, hafted with jade, 
And on the hilt a ruby worth three lackhs, 
Pigeon-blood color, marvelous, the gift 
Of Shah Jahan in some soft hour of love — 
An unmatched stone. And, when they looked to see 20 

The keen point pierce the panting satin skin 
Stripped of its veil — Arjamand stooped and placed 
The dagger blade beneath her sandal, snapped 
The bright steel short, and, drawing near to hers 
That Rajpoot's face, kissed tenderly her mouth, 25 

And gravely spake : " Go ! thou hast given me 
The richest, best, last gift which Earth could give 

1. Moguls. — Mongols were called Moguls by the Persians. " The Mongols 
correspond in almost every respect with the Turanian family. They include 
Chinese, Indo-Chinese, Tartars of all kinds, Burmese, Lapps, Finns, Es- 
quimaux Siamese, Tibetans, Turks, and even Magyars. Collectively they 
are the great Nomadic people of the earth." 

10. Henna.— A shrub growing in moist situations throughout the north of 
Africa, Arabia, Persia, and the E. Indies. The leaves abound in coloring 
matter, and are very generally used by the women of the East in staining 
the nails and tips of the fiiiger.s of an orange color. 

14. Walla, wallah. —Fellow; man; doer; agent; a civil servant, selected 
by competitive examination. 

16. Hafted with jade,— //a/^ a handle as of a knife or dagger; jade, a 
mineral of a greenish color, used by natives for weapons. 

17. Lackli, lac— The sum of 100,000— usually of rupees. 



40 SELECTED POEMS. 

In comfort of my great Lord's constancy. 
Take thou this jewel of my dagger, Friend ! — 
Nowise its point ! — and a Queen's thanks therewith 
For treason dearly done to Arjamand !" 

So passed the Rajpoot, rich and scatheless, thence. 

JSaJieb. Sweeter her memory seems for that one deed 
Of loftiest clemency than for her face 
Of "heavenly charm, or for her sovereignties, 
Or fame or tomb ! How think you, Gulbadan ? 



LOTUS AND JEWEL. 41 

V. 

Lotus and Jewel. 

** A Rajput Nurse." 

" Whose tomb have they builded, Vittoo ! under this tamarind 

tree, 
With its door of the rose-veined marble, and white dome 

stately to see, 
Was he holy Brahman, or Yogi, or Chief of the Rajput line, 
Whose urn rests here by the river, in the shade of the beautiful 

shrine ?" 

" May it please you," quoth Vittoo, salaaming, " Protector of 
all the poor ! 5 

It was not for holy Brahman they carved that delicate door ; 

Nor for Yogi, nor Rajput Rana, built they this gem of our 
land ; 

But to tell of a Rajput woman, as long as the stones should 
stand. 

"Her name was Moti, the pearl-name; 'twas far in the 

ancient times ; 
But her moon-like face and her teeth of pearl are sung of still 

in our rhymes ; 10 

And because she was young, and comely, and of good repute, 

and had laid 
A babe in the arms of her husband, the Palace-Nurse she was 

made: 

3. Brahman Priest. Rrahma, one of the three chief gods of Hindu 

pantheon, especially associated with the function of creation. 

3. Yogi A devotee of the Yoga system of philosophy. Yoga, a species 

of asceticism among the Hindus. 

3. Rajput.~A member of a Hindu race who regarded themselves as de- 
scendants of the ancient warrior caste. They now chiefly occupy Rajpootana. 

12. " A Hindu father acknowledges paternity by receiving in his arms his 
new-born child." 



4S SELECTED POEMS. 

' ' For the sweet chief -queen of the Kana in Joudhpore city 

had died, 
Leaving a motherless infant, the heir to that race of pride ; 
The heir of the peacock-banner, of the five-colored flag, of the 

throne 
"Which traces its record of glory from days when it ruled 

alone ; 

" From times when, forth from the sunlight, the first of our 
kings came down 5 

And had the earth for his footstool, and wore the, stars for his 
crown. 

As all good Rajputs have told us.; so Moti was proud and true, 

With the Prince of the land on her bosom, and her own brown 
baby too. 

"And the Rajput woman will have it (I know not myself of 

these things) 
As the two babes lay on her lap there, her lord's, and the 

Joudhpore King's ; 10 

So loyal was the blood of her body, so fast the faith of her 

heart, 
It passed to her new-bora infant, who took of her trust its 

part. 

'' He would not suck of the breast-milk till the Prince had 

drunken his fill ; 
He would not sleep to the cradle-song till the Prince was 

lulled and still ; 
And he lay at night with his small arms clasped round the 

Rana's child, 15 

As if those hands like the rose-leaf could shelter from treason 

wild. 



5. The Rajput dyuasty is said to be descended from the Sun. 
10. Joudhpore.— A city in Rajpootana, capital of a protected state of 
the same name. 
15. Kana.— King. 



LOTUS AND JEWEL. 43 

"For treason was wild in the country, and villainous men 
had sought 

The life of the heir of the gadi, to the Palace in secret 
brought ; 

With bribes to the base, and with knife-thrusts for the faith- 
ful, they made their way 

Through the line of the guaixls, and the gateways, to the hall 
where the women lay. 

"There Moti, the foster-mother, sat singing the children to 
rest, 5 

Her baby at play on her crossed knees, and the King's son 
held to her breast ; 

And the dark slave- maidens round her beat low on the cym- 
bal's skin 

Keeping the time of her soft song — when — Saheb ! — there 
hurried in 

" A breathless watcher, who whispered, with horror in eyes 

and face : 
' Oh ! Moti ! men come to murder my Lord the Prince in this 

place ! 10 

They have bought the help of the gate-guards, or slaughtered 

them unawares, 
Hark ! that is the noise of their tulwars, the clatter upon the 

stairs ! ' 

"For one breath she caught her baby from her lap to her 

heart, and let 
The King's child sink from her nipple, with lips still clinging 

and wet. 
Then tore from the Prince his head-cloth, and the putta of 

pearls from his waist, 15 

And bound the belt on her infant, and the cap on his brows, 

in haste ; 

2. Gadi.- The throne. 

8. Saheb, sahib.— Sir; gentleman. 
18. Tulwars.— Indian swords. 
15. Putta.— Belt. 



44 SELECTED POEMS. 

' ' And laid her own dear offspring, her flesh and blood on the 

floor, 
With the girdle of pearls around him, and the cap that the 

King's son wore ; 
While close to her heart, which was breaking, she folded the 

Kaja's joy, 
And — even as the murderers lifted the purdah— she fled with 

his boy. 

"But there (so they deemed) in his jewels, lay the Chota 

Rana, the Heir ; 5 

'The cow with two calves has escaped us,' cried one, 'it is 

right and fair 
She should save her own butcha ; no matter ! the edge of the 

dagger ends 
This spark of Lord Raghoba's sunlight ; stab thrice and four 

times, O friends ! ' 

*' And the Rajput women will have it (I know not if this can 

be so) 
That Moti's son in the putta and golden cap cooed low, 10 
When the sharp blades met in his small heart, with never one 

moan or wince, 
But died with a babe's light laughter, because he died for his 

Prince. 

" Thereby did that Rajpfit mother preserve the line of our 

Kings." 
"Oh ! Vittoo," I said, "but they gave her much gold and 

beautiful things, . 



3. Baja, rajah.— A native prince or king. 

4. Purdali.— A curtain. 

5. Chota Rana.— " Little King." 

7. Butcha.— "Little one." 

8. Lord Rag^hoba.— A celebrated king of Oude, descended from the 
Sun. 



LOTUS AND JEWEL. 45 

And garments, and land for her people, and a home in the 

Palace ! May be 
She had grown to love that Princeling even more than the 

child on her knee." 

" May it please the Presence ! " quoth Vittoo, " it seemeth not 
so ! They gave 

The gold and the garments and jewels, as much as the proud- 
est would have ; 

But the same night deep in her true heart she buried a knife, 
and smiled, 5 

Saying this : ' I have saved my Rana ! I must go to suckle 
my child ! ' " 



46 SELECTED POEMS. 

VI. 

Miscellaneous Poems. 

She and He. 

'* She is dead !" they said to him. " Come away ; 
Kiss her ! and leave her ! — thy love is clay ! " 

They smoothed her tresses of dark-brown hair ; 
On her forehead of marble they laid it fair : 

Over her eyes, which gazed too much, 5 

They drew the lids with a gentle touch ; 

With a tender touch they closed up well 
The sweet thin lips that had secrets to tell ; 

About her brows, and her dear, pale face 

They tied her veil and her marriage-lace ; 10 

And drew on her white feet her white silk shoes ; — 
Which were the whiter no eye could choose ! 

And over her bosom they crossed her hands ; 
'' Come away," they said, — " God understands ! " 

And then there was Silence ;— and nothing there 15 

But the Silence — and scents of eglantere. 

And jasmine, and roses, and rosemary ; 

For they said, " As a lady should lie, lies she !" 

And they held their breath as they left the room, 

With a shudder to glance at its stillness and gloom. 20 

But he — who loved her too well to dread 
The sweet, the stately, the beautiful dead, — 



MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 47 

He lit his lamp, and took the key, 

And turn'd it ! — alone again — he and she ! 

He and she ; but she would not speak. 

Though he kissed, in the old place, the quiet cheek ; 

He and she ; yet she would not smile, 5 

Though he call'd her the name that was fondest erewhile. 

He and she ; and she did not move 
To any one passionate whisper of love ! 

Then he said, " Cold lips ! and breast witjiout breath ! 
Is there no voice ? — no language of death 10 

" Dumb to the ear and still to the sense, 
But to heart and to soul distinct, — intense ? 

"See, now,— I listen with soul, not ear— 
What was the secret of dying. Dear ? 

" Was it the infinite wonder of all, 15 

That you ever could let life's flower fall ? 

' ' Or was it a greater marvel to feel 
The perfect calm o'er the agony steal ? 

" Was the miracle greatest to find how deep, 
Beyond all dreams, sank downward that sleep ? 20 

" Did life roll backward its record. Dear, 
And show, as they say it does, past things clear? 

" And was it the innermost heart of the bliss 
To find out so what a wisdom love is ? 

" Oh, perfect Dead ! oh, Dead most dear, 25 

I hold the breath of my soul to hear ; 



48 SELECTED POEMS. 

" I listen — as deep as to horrible hell, 
As high as to heaven !— and you do not tell ! 

" There must be pleasures in dying, Sweet, 
To njake you so placid from head to feet ! 

" I would tell you, Darling, if I were dead, 5 

And 'twere your hot tears upon my brow shed. 

" I would say, though the angel of death had laid 
His sword on my lips to keep it unsaid. 

" You should not ask, vainly, with streaming eyes, 
Which in D6ath's touch was the chiefest surprise ; 10 

" The very strangest and suddenest thing 
Of all the surprises that dying must bring." 

Ah ! foolish world ! Oh ! most kind Dead ! 
Though he told me, who will believe it was said ? 

Who will believe that he heard her say, 15 

With the soft rich voice, in the dear old way : — 

" The utmost w^onder is this, — I hear, 
And see you, and love you, and kiss you. Dear ; 

" I can speak, now you listen with soul alone ; 
If your soul could see, it would all be shown 20 

*' What a strange delicious amazement is Death, 
To be without body and breathe without breath. 

" I should laugh for joy if you did not cry ; 
Oh, listen ! love lasts ! — love never will die. 

" I am only your Angel who was your Bride ; 25 

And I know, that though dead, I have never died." 



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